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Enclosure

Gragan West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Gragan West, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gragan West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.06581, -9.19694
SMR number
CL005-202002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In a slight depression in elevated rocky pasture overlooking the Ballyvaughan Valley to the N and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). A subcircular enclosure (int. dims. 9.6m E-W 9.4m N-S) defined by a grass-covered wall (Wth 1-1.4m) with traces of inner wall-facing (H 0.25m) along the NNE and traces of outer wall-facing along the SW and SSW (H 0.5m). There is no clear entrance. The wall encloses the footings of a subrectangular building (CL005-202003-). A second enclosure (CL005-202001-) is located 2.5m to the SW. An enclosure (CL005-113----) is located c. 57m to the NW, and a cashel (CL005-114002-) lies c. 67m to the SSE. 

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 14 October 2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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